thrown with great force
Sixty-seven pages into my second attempt at reading The Infinity Race. And I HATE THIS BOOK. Simon Messingham is vandalizing the characters I love! Anji's a bitch who thinks Fitz is stupid and wishes he would die (which is extra appalling after the wonderful, loving friendship we see between Anji and Fitz in Time Zero); Fitz is a "big lug" (bzuh???); and the Doctor's boring and inept.
Seriously, it's like Messingham wrote this book from one-sentence character descriptions, at most, and never read any of the previous EDAs. Anji: young woman with a high powered financial career, so she must be Bridget Jones crossed with Donald Trump. Fitz: Tall. Oh, and a bit immature. So he'll be the one who doesn't understand things and gets hit on the head a lot.
Not that Messingham's original characters are any more three-dimensional or interesting. The plot's boring me to death even though Anji, Fitz, and the Doctor are in constant peril. And his prose is absolute crap, both in terms of voice (it's hard to tell Anji's and Fitz's first-person voices apart, and both are full of lame asides to the reader that Messingham seems to think are both avant-garde and hilarious) and technical competence (about every third sentence has a comma splice).
Only the fact that this book is in the middle of a multi-book arc is making me continue.
ETA: Like I said, I'm only partway through, but I don't actually care if you spoil me for the rest of this book. So comment freely if you wish.
*****
Seriously, it's like Messingham wrote this book from one-sentence character descriptions, at most, and never read any of the previous EDAs. Anji: young woman with a high powered financial career, so she must be Bridget Jones crossed with Donald Trump. Fitz: Tall. Oh, and a bit immature. So he'll be the one who doesn't understand things and gets hit on the head a lot.
Not that Messingham's original characters are any more three-dimensional or interesting. The plot's boring me to death even though Anji, Fitz, and the Doctor are in constant peril. And his prose is absolute crap, both in terms of voice (it's hard to tell Anji's and Fitz's first-person voices apart, and both are full of lame asides to the reader that Messingham seems to think are both avant-garde and hilarious) and technical competence (about every third sentence has a comma splice).
Only the fact that this book is in the middle of a multi-book arc is making me continue.
ETA: Like I said, I'm only partway through, but I don't actually care if you spoil me for the rest of this book. So comment freely if you wish.
*****